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You Are Not a Before Picture: 2022’s bestselling inspirational new guide to help you tackle diet culture, finding self acceptance, and making peace with your body Hardcover – 9 Jun. 2022

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An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.

When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a ‘before’ picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the ‘glow-up’ (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But it’s not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of ‘problem’ areas for which the billion-dollar diet industry holds the solutions.

Step-by-step, You Are Not A Before Picture provides a framework for changing the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Working with experts in the fields of psychotherapy, fitness and nutrition, Alex empowers readers to interrogate their underlying beliefs, challenge the external and internal forces that are holding us back, and finally find freedom in our bodies, for good.

Alex Light was a number 4 Sunday Times Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e June 19th 2022

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9 Jun. 2022
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15.9 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm
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0008507562
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978-0008507565
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HQ (9 Jun. 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008507562
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008507565
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.9 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 59 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1 in Media Studies (Books)
- 1 in Family & Lifestyle Eating Disorders
- 1 in Psychology & Eating Disorders

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Alex Light is a body confidence, self-acceptance and lifestyle influencer from London. After struggling from various eating disorders, Alex’s virtual platform transformed from a beauty and fashion blog into a glimpse into her personal struggles.Throughout her journey on social media, Alex has gained an expansive insight into the reality behind eating disorders, as well as weight stigma and diet culture. After a long and arduous recovery, Alex is dedicated to providing a safe space for anyone in the grips of an eating disorder or bad body image.

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Charli S-O

Al’s Smashed it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2022

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Alex has not only written possibly the most important book this century, that everyone simply needs to read. She’s also written it absolutely beautifully, a talent to behold on a subject that effects everyone in some way. Eloquent, informed, witty but also a big finger to the diet industry, diet culture and the hell it causes so many. This isn’t just an ED recovery story, it’s a well researched journalistic insight into the culture we live in & have grown up in. Well done and more importantly, thank you Alex.

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Catherine,

This book is going to help so many people

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2022

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I've struggled with my body image and self worth since I can remember, and I've followed Alex for a while now on insta. She's already helped me realise lifes not all about my shape and size. I've only read the first few chapters of this book since it arrive today, but I already know how much it's going to help me, and many others. We'll worth buying 🧡

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Lisa

Life changing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2022

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This book couldn't have come at a better time. Having struggled for years with BD, fad diets and obsessions over weight, Alex has wrote the most incredible book about how to learn to love your body even with all the struggles we face on a day to day basis. It's an honest, amazing and perfectly written book which I finished in one day and literally couldn't recommend it enough! It's going to change my life for the better and I can't thank Alex enough for writing this and sharing her stories

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Lynne

Amazing book!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2022

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This book is so insightful and positive!I can’t stop reading it and Alex has opened up and been honest about her struggles. This book is just what is needed in this day in age and I already feel more positive about myself!!!congratulations Alex 🌸🌸

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This book has changed my life as a Mummy!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 August 2022

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As I sit here on the beach looking over at my children (8, 5 & 1yrs old) happily playing on our summer holiday, I have tears hiding behind my sunglasses. This book has changed my life for the future. I so wish I had this book so many years before. Because I’m sad at the amount of time/years I have wasted thinking and feeling like I am not good enough for those around me, I’m sad because I have wasted the most valuable years with my children being embarrassed by this body of mine that society lead me to believe wasn’t good enough or normal enough! This book has made me realise I AM ENOUGH!! This book has given my children their Mummy the confidence to be ME! No longer will I sit in the shadows and watch on, no longer will I refuse to be in pictures and opt to take them instead, one day all my children will have of me is pictures and I will not give them the heartbreak of not having these memories to treasure because I’d grew up believing I wasn’t good enough. It’s so engraved into my mind that I know it will take time but this is the start of the rest of my life, I feel a weight has been lifted and I cannot thank Alex enough for writing this book, You truly have saved my life from misery and self loathing. I hope you see this Alex because from the bottom of my heart and my little children’s heart THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU X100!!!

P.s please campaign to get this book given to high school/teenage aged girls, it will change their whole output on body image. I so wish I had had it from a young age!

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Cj

The most important book I've ever read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2022

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This book is probably one of the most important pieces of literature I have ever read.

Not only was it incredibly interesting, full of facts and statics that I never knew or expected, it was also written with such thought and passion. The topics within this book are extremely important to Alex and it positively shows. Her experiences and understanding of such makes her insites and advice even more powerful.

Alex has a true talent for writing and it was displayed perfectly in this book. If you only read one book this year, then it should be this.

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Life changing - fantastic book read it in one day.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 June 2022

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I absolutely loved this book. It’s so well written, relatable and honestly a game changer. I realise I’ve lived a life with a disordered relationship with food and my body. This book was an eye opener and really inspiring. It really compliments the self journey I am on to body acceptance. Well done Alex, you nailed this. This is a must read!

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Ellie D

I was waiting for a diet to change my life but all I needed was this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2022

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Beautifully written, eloquent, well-informed, a complete game changer. Would highly recommend the audiobook as beautifully articulated by Alex herself, it’s like having a chat with your best mate. I think this is my new bible as I know I will immediately restart it as soon as I finish. I have struggled with my body image and been on and off a every diet ever invented from the age of 9: having given birth to my first child earlier this year, I promised myself there would be no negative self-talk around her and that I would die before I let her feel how I have felt about myself as I’ve grown up and I would never let diet culture rule her life as much as it was ruled mine. I wondered how much I’d be able to keep up feigning confidence, self-love and body positivity around her before she caught me out or I went too far into the realms of “toxic positivity” but thanks to this book, there will be no faking and I’ll be able to pass on the wisdom I have learnt from Alex. It’s going to take me a while to erase 18 years of self-loathing, body dysmorphia and a terrible relationship with food but I hope by time my daughter is self-aware, I will be in a much better place to teach her correctly about diet, health, body image etc. Turns out I didn’t need a miracle diet to change my life, I just needed this book.

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